The Maryland bench reacts to a play during the second half of a 65-55 win over Duke in Spokane, Wash. XMIT: WAYK112

The Maryland bench reacts to a play during the second half of a 65-55 win over Duke in Spokane, Wash. XMIT: WAYK112 (Young Kwak / Associated Press)

Gov. Larry Hogan and Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam didn't mess around when it came to a friendly wager on tonight's women's NCAA tournament game between No. 1 seed Maryland and No. 2 seed Tennessee in the Spokane region final.

Hogan, confident the Terps will advance to the Final Four, called Haslam and bet a bushel of Maryland blue crabs against ribs from the world-famous Charles Vergos’ Rendezvous restaurant in Memphis.

Forbes Magazine's annual franchise rankings this year rate the Orioles as having the 10th-best fans in baseball, while the franchise value climbed over $1 billion for the first time.

According to its franchise valuation rankings, the Orioles are the 15th-most valuable franchise in the sport at $1 billion. The Orioles, like every other team, saw their franchise value skyrocket this year, due to the general buyers market when it comes to professional sports franchises and baseball’s booming media value.

In 2014, just five teams were valued by Forbes at $1 billion. Ten more teams, including the Orioles, joined that club in this year’s list.

After defeating a Princeton team that featured his niece, the Maryland women's basketball team celebrated with a cardboard cutout of Barack Obama.

After defeating a Princeton team that featured his niece, the Maryland women's basketball team celebrated with a cardboard cutout of Barack Obama.

The Maryland women’s basketball team faced an undefeated Princeton team last night with the knowledge that President Barack Obama had picked against them, and the Terps didn’t forget it after the game.

After dispatching the Tigers, 85-70, the Terps decided to let Obama, whose niece Leslie Robinson plays for Princeton, know that there were no hard feelings.

“Sorry, man, but we had to bust your bracket,” coach Brenda Frese said in a video of the postgame locker room scene, which set off a celebration among her players. She was holding a cardboard cutout of the president in a Maryland jersey.

Given all the ugliness surrounding Robinson’s visit to Maryland, what with the unsubstantiated threats, it was nice for the Terps to add a little levity to the situation. It helped, of course, that they won handily.

A projection system run 500 days before the start of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janiero has the world's most decorated Olympian, Michael Phelps, picking up two more gold medals in what would be his fifth trip to the Games.

The projection system, run by the Dutch company Infostrada Sports and posted by NBC Sports, has Phelps winning the 200-meter individual medley and 100-meter butterfly — both events he’s won gold medals in for the last three Olympics.

The Rodgers Forge native already has 22 total medals, including 18 golds (11 individual golds), and 13 individual medals. These two individual medals would give him 15, the all-time record for individual medals by a male or female.

Of course, Phelps has to go to Brazil and compete for these to either be a possibility. He hasn’t officially said one way or another whether he would compete in what would be his age-31 summer. But since he returned to competition, most everyone thinks he will.

New offensive coordinator Marc Trestman talks about learning the Ravens' offense and not forcing the team to adjust to his offense. (Kevin Richardson/Baltimore Sun video)

New offensive coordinator Marc Trestman talks about learning the Ravens' offense and not forcing the team to adjust to his offense. (Kevin Richardson/Baltimore Sun video)

Chicago Bears guard Matt Slauson earlier this week endorsed his former head coach, Marc Trestman, to do great things in Baltimore ahead of Trestman’s first season as offensive coordinator.

“I think he is a really good fit,” said Slauson said Monday at an Ed Block Courage Award event. “I think it’s going to help him a lot to be back at the offensive coordinator level. Every place he’s been in the NFL as a coordinator, he has had tremendous success and I think he’s going to fit in really well here. The Baltimore offense is so powerful and explosive, the players on it are great. He can do whatever he wants with it.”

Trestman went 13-19 in two seasons with the Bears, following up a successful offensive campaign in 2013 with a disappointing 2014 season. Trestman came under fire at times for throwing too often at the expense of star running back Matt Forte. But he has said he’ll adapt his philosophies to the Ravens' run-first tendencies with one of the league’s top offensive lines and...

Haloti Ngata’s career with the Ravens ended with a heartbreaking playoff loss, something the defensive tackle experienced too often in his Baltimore playing days, but a feeling his new Detroit Lions teammates learned this year.

The Lions lost in the NFC wild-card round to the Dallas Cowboys in January, and star wide receiver Calvin Johnson said a player with a Super Bowl ring like Ngata can be a positive influence on the entire locker room as they aim to improve in 2015.

“I think any time you bring those guys in, one with a lot of playoff experience, with rings — those guys won — guys in the locker room gravitate towards those guys,” Johnson said Monday at an event connected to the Ed Block Courage Awards. “Those guys have been there, so there’s a lot that they can teach the guys.”

Johnson has played the past five seasons with Ndamukong Suh, one of the most dominant defensive tackles in the game, and said Suh and Ngata fit the same bill.